Samantha Keeper

am I stupid or does mastodon not have a way of just going from someone's profile directly to a search of that person's posts/tags

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117325137427138728 this is so delightful to me because as a non programmer I realized, really quickly into working on A Host of Gentle Terrors, that if there was something I wanted the player to experience, it was easiest to simply *write it myself* rather than trying to procedurally generate it and apparently these chatbots have arrived at the exact same conclusion: if you want the user to have an experience, just cheat lmao

I really want to believe in the small web on principle but it kinda feels like you have to fight an increasing number of world or provincial governments on one side and a massive army of botnet scrapers on the other, to say nothing of any given payment processor deciding to do a forensic analysis of whether your content adheres to their brand. idk it's starting to feel like I should put my energy into xerox zine mail distribution networks instead or something

I do still want to be an immortal cyborg with hot swappable genitals though, sorry, I do still think all that is good and desirable.

I wish mastodon reposting validation worked some other way than the kind of stupid way it works now where I get 422 errors all the time if I try to reblog something too quickly

@irisjaycomics@mellified.men this is OUR territory dammit, these guys who just want to be Looksmaxing Chads or whatever are philosophically freeloading on our turf!

RE: https://mastodon.art/@biodiversitypix/117339206504004058 HELLO

man the chatroom episode of Stand Alone Complex is such an all timer they perfectly captured so many Types Of Forum Guy. they even predicted the War Thunder Leak Guy!

@itsnero@mstdn.itsnero.com oh those are there because I put them there manually there's not really afaict a way to search for something like that that someone hasn't manually added

@itsnero@mstdn.itsnero.com I mean there is it just requires remembering search syntax bullshit and typing it all in manually

also all our groceries cost like 20-50c more now so, you know. every dollar helps.

after having a pretty retraumatizing experience and a subsequent week of really violent intrusive thoughts, the complexity of "I don't feel sorry for feeling this way, but I do feel upset at what it means about who I've become" resonates a lot.

one thing I legitimately don't know how to handle, with launching ideally multiple websites, is how concerned I should be about AI DDOSing me into either oblivion or bankruptcy. idk if there's even anything I can DO about it. makes me wonder if I should release my shit as interactive cd-roms instead

phenomenal fonts on this one tho

well I'm on the internet archive again

@itsnero@mstdn.itsnero.com I've actually been curious how much information about styling and layout can be passed via the rss/atom spec... like if you can transmit style sheets or inline styles that would inform the reader how the comic should be displayed... though, I've noticed a decent number of webcomic rss feeds don't actually include the image! I guess maybe to force a click? or possibly just oversight lol a lot of people configure rss pretty haphazardly

@itsnero@mstdn.itsnero.com a built in ◄ ► functionality for browsing through a feed would be cool, and I wonder if there'd be an effective way to set some comics up to display as like a daily "funny pages" layout... one of my biggest frustrations with readers I've tried so far is not being able to have separate UI paradigms for different types of content!

@SophiaSurname@shrike.club looking into it it seems like it's gotten a bit of a reappraisal. critics historically have been pretty mixed and afaict so have fans of pink floyd... I think probably people who aren't fans of pink floyd mostly just haven't watched it. Roger deriding the film probably didn't help its reputation for a while

@itsnero@mstdn.itsnero.com what do you think a webcomic reader would want feature-wise that's different to an article reader? asking here too since I'd rather talk here than on bluesky lol

@itsnero@mstdn.itsnero.com btw idk if you knew this but there used to be someone who ran an rss service just for gocomics but the company got mad and got it shut down aaaand now I no longer follow any of those mainstream strips on gocomics because they don't support rss natively but require you to log in instead 🙃 good work guys!

@lunalapin@slime.global there is not a lot of self awareness on display right now no I sorta forgot, being in a bubble, how much fandom is still driven by "stop talking about meaning and start talking about lore"

fully respect the "no cgi is really just invisible cgi" push but I do think people are starting to do a subtle little motte and bailey where because competent looking movies use cgi, we shouldn't point out the overused-cgi slop house style of disney productions. but they do simply look like ass.

finding new fonts to download like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ihEPfn_e8I

I really, really loathe the disney sing along song style text on every vertical video now.

the nefarious washington deep state is denying us "I Voted" stickers in a conspiracy to suppress the millennial vote (addicted to participation trophies &c)

something can be elusive in what it's saying but not have aboutsomethingness. aboutsomethiness?

I didn't connect, till it was stated in the end, that Visaggio wrote Eternity Girl, one part of Gerard Way's abortive attempt to prod DC into doing bold Vertigo-style comics again. in retrospect it makes a lot of things about that book snap into place.

@kate@shrike.club with the power of ai the massive corporations who run everything can ship more odd shit that makes you feel like you're in the Backrooms than ever before!

oh yeah buddy well if you're so smart YOU try to solve the american malaise without sending every chipper middle manager and bureaucrat to labor on the forcibly collectivized farms

@itsnero@mstdn.itsnero.com that's fascinating cause I just checked through my rss reader and maybe a quarter or veeeeery generously and permissively a third of the comics I follow are things I'd call "all ages" like that doesn't mean the other three quarters are all pornography, a lot of it is just mature themes, gore, &c, but like... limiting to "all ages" just cuts out so many comics I think of as The Big Ones

well time to write about Chainsmoker Cat [puts on Type O Negative's "World Coming Down" to get in the proper headspace]

ftr I don't think this is a kind of dipole of possibilities, there's many ways to be or not be about something, what I'm reaching for is a kind of aspiration to obviously have themes or Character Lessons or whatever, but with this faintly hollow or half-considered way. a thing that aggressively wishes for you to understand that it's not just another dumb movie... but also doesn't really stand up to scrutiny or feel that sincere in its explorations

my KID could have made a cast bronze replica of that mundane object and then painted it to produce a timeless but illusory facsimile of the original!

I updated my Patreon "About" page for the first time in an actual decade and had some thoughts and feelings about the change from a chipper poptimistic sales pitch to... well, something a lot more raw and honest to where my life and work are, 15 years since I started. https://www.patreon.com/StormingtheIvoryTower/posts/ive-got-new-page-165513315?pr=true

@kate@shrike.club nodding, scowling, as though to say, yes of course, just how the deep state wants it.....

currently recovering from... covid? food poisoning? rotavirus? some combination?? plus a very stressful few months, so if you've been a "free follower" of my stuff for a bit, it'd be a real cool time to throw me a couple bucks, in return for all the random stuff I don't post elsewhere https://www.patreon.com/c/StormingtheIvoryTower

I am not immune to tumblr mindset (becoming fixated on men who suck) so I'm very thankful that The Vampire Lestat provided a useful counterbalance (woman who sucks) (Gabrielle <3 <3 <3 )

bravely finally taking the stand that Pink Floyd's The Wall is not just a film you should see because it's "actually really interesting" but because it's "actually a good movie" all these movies are good btw though I think only All That Jazz is considered a Good Movie™

you notice how even the absolute biggest websites in the world now have just... all these little weird bugs, broken features, strangely warped functionality, just all kinds of small bits of wrongness and neglect and dysfunction that I guess everyone's given up on trying to fix?

a shocking number of "progressive" youtubers started out analyzing art or well more accurately doing commentary on pop culture, and gradually realized they could get way bigger selling essentially overstuffed, politically palatable upmarket tabloids. someone should probably study that shit.

I know I know xkcd comic I know

people will look at a brilliantly written and portrayed character positioned constantly as having a tense even hostile relationship to the player and legitimately be like "actually *he* is just a blank slate for the player to project onto"

couple of reviews of anime about characters doing other, different art, fresh for your monday night https://www.patreon.com/StormingtheIvoryTower/posts/anime-haters-on-165697340?pr=true